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Fri.Dec 15, 2023

“It Is What It Is” — Learning From the Past Without Getting Stuck in It

Mad in America

DECEMBER 15, 2023

I t was my Pearl Harbor Day, only I had no FDR to rally me with fireside chat to encourage a heroic comeback. Nevertheless, like USS Arizona and Utah, I lay immobile from what felt like a sneak attack. In the dim quiet of the calculatingly sterile room I was alone, awash with discouragement and sunken in the icy depths of depression. My head jerked to the side repeatedly, unpredictably and uncontrollably, to my chagrin.

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‘Delusions’ and ‘Paranoia’: What Are They, Really, and How Can We Engage Them in a Loved One?

Mad in America

DECEMBER 15, 2023

The following is the second excerpt adapted from Healing Companions , a book by the MIA author Sam Ruck (his pen name) that describes his life with, and love for, his wife and her “alters.” His earlier installment addressed the problems with “psychosis.” S o many words get thrown around these days—words which define extreme states, or try to, in a way that diminishes the human beings who live through them.

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Fri.Dec 15, 2023

“It Is What It Is” — Learning From the Past Without Getting Stuck in It

‘Delusions’ and ‘Paranoia’: What Are They, Really, and How Can We Engage Them in a Loved One?

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